Some Live Like Lazarus story
A couple who've had to endure the groom-to-be's domineering mother for 40 years are uncertain how to proceed onward when she finally dies. Directed by: Peter Sharp. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
13 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing between love and family | choice | Roger was torn between his domineering mother and his childhood love, Anna. Anna demanded that Roger kill his mother so that they could be together. |
| controlling family member | major | Roger's domineering mother, who ran his life completely, was in the way of him being together with his childhood love, Anna. |
| matricide | major | It is possible that 60-year-old Roger finally did in his domineering mother. In Anna's dream, Roger killed his mother in three different ways: he smothered her with a pillow as she lay in bed, hanged her in a tree, and ran her through with a steak as though she were a vampire. |
| mother and son | major | Roger's domineering mother was in the way of him being together with his childhood love, Anna. |
| romantic love | major | Roger and Anna fell deeply in love. |
| creative writing | minor | In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing. |
| human childhood | minor | In a scene from Roger's childhood, Roger's domineering mother stopped him in his tracks from playing childhood games with Anna. |
| love at first sight | minor | The teenagers Roger and Anna became instantly besotted with each other. |
| prejudicial attitude of superiority against someone less well off than one's self | minor | Roger's mother bluntly refused to be introduced to his lover, Anna, saying that she did not "meet girls who wait on tables". |
| romantic courtship | minor | Anna wooed Roger in her backyard badminton court. |